Matt has written about comedy and culture for Cracked since 2019. Previously, he spent 16 years as a contributor to The Onion. Matt is the co-author of young adult novels Deck Z: The Titanic and The Giant Smugglers.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone Originally Planned to Make ‘Book of Mormon’ As An Animated Film It could have been another ‘Team America: World Police’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 16, 2024
5 Famous Comics You Didn’t Know Wrote for ‘SNL’ The writers’ room might have been funnier than the cast Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 16, 2024
Johnny Carson Left ‘The Tonight Show’ Set to Exact Revenge on Don Rickles ‘Someone broke my cigarette box!’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 15, 2024
Jerry Seinfeld Backtracks on Comments That ‘Extreme Left’ Is Killing Comedy Professor Comedy takes it all back — well, most of it Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 15, 2024
‘Masked Singer’ Picked This Week of All Weeks to Feature ‘Rock You Like A Hurricane’ A hurricane hitting Florida in the fall was no surprise Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 15, 2024
Chevy Chase Heckles Shooter McGavin ‘It’s an easy shot, (bleep)head!’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 15, 2024
5 ‘SNL’ Sketches that Never Saw the Light of Day Sometimes, the censors win Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 15, 2024
Columbo Day Should Be A National Holiday There’s just one more thing... Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 14, 2024
‘Pulp Fiction’ at 30: Five of the Movie’s Funniest Moments It’s funnier than the time Tarantino played an Elvis impersonator on ‘Golden Girls’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 14, 2024
Why ‘Too Carol Burnett’ Was the Ultimate Diss on Early ‘Saturday Night Live’ Burnett = too broad, too bourgeois, too smug Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 14, 2024
Diddy Once Warned Ashton Kutcher Not to Punk Him: ‘That Will Not End Well for You’ Plenty of things aren’t ending well for Kutcher Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 14, 2024
Technical Glitches Put the ‘Live’ Back in ‘Saturday Night Live’ Last night, ‘SNL’s tech difficulties echoed its first-ever episode Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 13, 2024
As George Lopez Quits Comedy, Here’s A Brief History of Him Being Terrible Lopez is a good guy, unless you’re another comic, a paying customer or his wife Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 11, 2024
Norm Macdonald Thought Alec Baldwin’s Trump Impression Was Terrible Comedy One of his former castmates did it better Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 11, 2024
50 Years Later, Does the First Episode of ‘SNL’ Hold Up? You might not recognize ‘SNL’ from its first episode Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 11, 2024
A New Book Exposes a Marx Brothers Link to Organized Crime ‘This guy was really shady’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 10, 2024
Robin Williams ‘Sabotaged’ Other Comedians at the Improv There was no such thing as Williams doing a tight five Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 10, 2024
Bill Murray Used His ‘Meatballs’ Motivational Speech to Inspire ‘SNL’s Worst Cast It just doesn’t matter Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 10, 2024
Dana Carvey Is Mystified By the Enduring Legacy of ‘Choppin’ Broccoli’ If I didn’t know her, she’d be the lady I didn’t know Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 10, 2024
Ali Wong’s New Netflix Special Proves She’s the Dirtiest Comic Working Today Wong dishes the dirty details in ‘Single Lady’ Authors By Matt Solomon Published October 09, 2024
